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76 NAME="THREAD"
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77 >Chapter 12. Multi-threaded Programming</A
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83 ><B
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84 >Table of Contents</B
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89 >SDL_CreateThread</A
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90 > &#8212; Creates a new thread of execution that shares its parent's properties.</DT
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94 >SDL_ThreadID</A
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95 > &#8212; Get the 32-bit thread identifier for the current thread.</DT
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96 ><DT
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99 >SDL_GetThreadID</A
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100 > &#8212; Get the SDL thread ID of a SDL_Thread</DT
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101 ><DT
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104 >SDL_WaitThread</A
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105 > &#8212; Wait for a thread to finish.</DT
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109 >SDL_KillThread</A
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110 > &#8212; Gracelessly terminates the thread.</DT
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114 >SDL_CreateMutex</A
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115 > &#8212; Create a mutex</DT
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119 >SDL_DestroyMutex</A
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120 > &#8212; Destroy a mutex</DT
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124 >SDL_mutexP</A
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125 > &#8212; Lock a mutex</DT
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129 >SDL_mutexV</A
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130 > &#8212; Unlock a mutex</DT
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134 >SDL_CreateSemaphore</A
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135 > &#8212; Creates a new semaphore and assigns an initial value to it.</DT
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139 >SDL_DestroySemaphore</A
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140 > &#8212; Destroys a semaphore that was created by <A
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142 >SDL_CreateSemaphore</A
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143 >.</DT
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147 >SDL_SemWait</A
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148 > &#8212; Lock a semaphore and suspend the thread if the semaphore value is zero.</DT
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149 ><DT
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152 >SDL_SemTryWait</A
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153 > &#8212; Attempt to lock a semaphore but don't suspend the thread.</DT
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154 ><DT
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157 >SDL_SemWaitTimeout</A
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158 > &#8212; Lock a semaphore, but only wait up to a specified maximum time.</DT
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159 ><DT
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162 >SDL_SemPost</A
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163 > &#8212; Unlock a semaphore.</DT
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164 ><DT
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167 >SDL_SemValue</A
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168 > &#8212; Return the current value of a semaphore.</DT
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169 ><DT
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172 >SDL_CreateCond</A
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173 > &#8212; Create a condition variable</DT
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174 ><DT
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183 > &#8212; Restart a thread wait on a condition variable</DT
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188 > &#8212; Restart all threads waiting on a condition variable</DT
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